Started in 2016 by Sandipan Mitra and Uttam Kumar, HungerBox is a full stack, food-tech company that is focussed on the B2B segment. Its tech-led solution enables end-to-end digital cafeteria management with the company’s proprietary technology platform connecting food vendors to employees within client organizations through a customised mobile app available to each employee.

The app enables employees to view the F&B menu provided by all enlisted food vendors at their workplace cafés, place orders and track delivery accurately. They can also provide ratings or feedback.

More than 50 different payment methods are integrated into the service offering including in-app purchases by an employee, payment via smart cards, mobile wallets and self-serve kiosks at the cafés among others.

The company claims that it operates more than 100 digital cafeterias for more than 75 corporate clients including Qualcomm, Microsoft, FirstSource, Accenture, CapGemini, Genpact, ABB, Amazon and McKinsey, across Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi/NCR and Jaipur.

It claims to have registered nearly 7 million orders on its platform till date. "We are clocking more than 120,000 daily orders and expect to scale this to half a million orders per day by end-2018" said Mitra.

“There is tremendous potential for innovation in the B2B food-tech arena as corporate spends on F&B are already massive and growing year-on-year. HungerBox addresses this large space with an easily scalable model and an end-to-end solution that provides a win-win to employees as well as to corporate clients” said Kris Gopalakrishnan.

“The B2B food space has plenty of headroom for growth and innovation for years to come. The winners in the sector will be those with a powerful, tech-led offering and the ability to scale in-step with their clients.” said Hari Kumar, Founder & CEO, Lionrock Capital.

HungerBox solution also provides features like ‘Personalized Recommendations’ to employees through its AI-driven technology, ‘Health Mode’ for health conscious employees, apart from the ability to undertake group-ordering and orders from restaurants in the vicinity when corporate cafés are closed.

Admin teams at the client organization will also have the ability to track the entire F&B operation including food consumption, orders and feedback among others in real-time.